Topic: Health Care Policy

HHS has announced new guidance to support enforcement of an Obama memo that bans hospitals from discriminating against gay couplesThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday announced new guidance to support enforcement of a memo signed last April by ...

Analysis: Two justices may decide fate of Obama healthcare law

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The legal fate of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law will likely come down to two Republican appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy.That would be a familiar role for Kennedy, ...

Analysis: Obama healthcare law: two justices may decide fate

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The legal fate of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law will likely come down to two Republican appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy.That would be a familiar role for Kennedy, ...
UCLA Health System must pay $865,500 as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over complaints that employees snooped on the health records of two celebrities.UCLA Health System must pay $865,500 as part of a ...

U.S. to clarify how insurance exchanges will work

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - States deciding whether to set up health insurance exchanges will get more information on Monday when the Obama administration reveals more on how these complex marketplaces will work.The federal government has so far given few details on this transformative ...

Big Medicare cuts to reduce deficit unpopular: poll

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Few Americans would support major cuts to Medicare to reduce the federal deficit, but many would be okay with minor savings in the popular healthcare program, a survey released on Thursday said.The latest tracking survey on healthcare issues by ...
Former health secretary Alan Milburn has launched a blistering attack on the coalition government's NHS reforms, calling them the "biggest car crash" in the service's 63-year history.The former Labour minister who was appointed as David Cameron's social mobility tzar in 2010 described ...

Review to back changes to NHS reforms

Medical experts were Monday to back sweeping changes to planned reforms of the NHS, an issue that has inflamed tensions in the coalition government.The NHS Future Forum, an independent body which has carried out a two-month consultation on the proposals, is expected ...

House committee not to move Medicare plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp said on Thursday his panel has no plans on moving forward on a Republican proposal that would privatize the Medicare health program for future retirees."I'm not really interested in just laying ...

Lansley says sorry to nurses over UK health reforms

LONDON(Reuters) - Health Secretary Andrew Lansley apologized for the poor communication of his health reforms and said changes would be made to draft legislation after nurses passed a vote of no confidence in him.At their annual conference on Wednesday, members of the ...